B.A. Parker

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.

They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

I respect the thought on Ms. Parks’s heavenly birthday… but I’m a Black lady with a bad back, I’m taking that seat.

The entire time they’ve been on this journey, the monks have been met with racism, cops, and content creators. A sad indictment of the current state of affairs.

For the first time in my life I saw a gun ad on tv tonight. Is that… common?

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If I never hear a media person use the term “North Star” again, it’ll be too soon. Also, the reader of NYT and viewer of 60 minutes isn’t a Venn diagram. Especially when it comes to access to news. Just absolutely disingenuous.

And there it is...

What a cool, exceptional lady. May she rest in power.

What a waste of time and money and energy. All for the syntax to make it seem like he’s also in memoriam.

The way “she thinks ‘farewell to arms’ is a diet book” has stuck with me since childhood.

Really curious with so many elevators currently “under renovation” in NYC, how are people with mobility challenges navigating the city independently right now?

And those facts are still locked in.

Between seeing Jay Kelly, Sentimental Value, and Hamnet, it’s been a real “absentee dad for the sake of his art” kinda day.

girl, i guess

CPB agrees to revive a $36 million deal with NPR killed after Trump's pressure The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $36 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.

CPB revives $36 million NPR deal killed after Trump’s pressure

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I mean, I’m out here doing my darnedest tho

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
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NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died. n.pr/4qjVMDS

Home - Elijah Cummings Youth Program in Israel The Elijah Cummings Youth Program in Israel is an elite two-year leadership fellowship for high school students in Baltimore.

This still exits by the way. And still feels… questionable. But it basically creates generations of talented tenth Black kids coming home regaling their very curated time in Israel with seemingly no knowlege of, say, the harm of the Balfour Declaration. www.ecyp.org/r

This explains a childhood mystery. A big tentpole of my city’s district of Bmore was our Rep’s push to get Black h.s. kids to apply for a summer in Israel to encourage historical Black & Jewish bonds. Which seemed valid, but we always thought wouldn’t it be easier to talk to Jewish ppl in Bmore??

RIP D'Angelo (1974-2025) 🕊️😔

Thanks, KGB!! We’re tryin!

Books stacked atop each other: Interview with the Vampire by Ann Rice Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen True Grit by Charles Portis The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Dune by Frank Herbert Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan

NPR’s announcement of “Books We’ve Loved.” A new limited series from Book Of The Day. Hosted by Book of the Day’s Andrew Limbong and Code Switch’s B.A. Parker.

Some cool news: I got to do a fun side project. I’ll be co-hosting a limited series called “Books We’ve Loved.” It’s where we revisit some of our fave books or read classics for the first time. I’m stoked. It starts Saturday, October 18th in the Books We Love feed from NPR. The said books are below:

Losing Robert Redford, David Lynch and Diane Keaton in the same calendar year might break me.

See? Audio can be inadvertently funny sometimes.

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

He learned that he could do that and a lot of his viewers would be ok with it, and there would be no real ramifications. So sadly, we were the ones to learn a hard lesson.

Why Malala Yousafzai is a hero in the West but not back home

A new Code Switch ep is out that I’m really proud of. My colleague Mariya tries to reconcile Pakistan’s relationship with Malala with the West’s. And how maybe the western stamp of approval puts her in a different light back home. open.spotify.com/episode/6N72...

For better or worse, he is maintaining Jay Leno’s legacy in this way specifically.